{"id":7164,"date":"2026-07-20T02:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:22:53","slug":"living-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7164","title":{"rendered":"Living Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Living Commentary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. \u2013 Psalm 119:117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are poor, weak, inconsistent creatures if left but a little to ourselves. When I think how cold, dull and heartless I have been; how often I have wandered, how often trifled upon the brink of temptation; when I consider what powerful, vigilant, and subtle enemies are combined against me; and how many professors have fallen on my right hand and my left \u2013 I am amazed at the greatness of His mercy in preserving me! I am a living commentary, that there is forgiveness with Him \u2013 and that He is able to save to the uttermost!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Commentary! Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. \u2013 Psalm 119:117 We are poor, weak, inconsistent creatures if left but a little to ourselves. When I think how cold, dull and heartless I have been; how often I have wandered, how often trifled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,19,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-newton","category-perseverence","category-salvation-deliverance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}